The Silver Pencil
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780140347920 (0140347925)
Publish date: August 1st 1991
Publisher: Puffin
Pages no: 235
Edition language: English
Series: Janet (#1)
Fictionalized memoir of a girl growing up in colonial Trinidad, then moving to Britain at age 12 to go to school (which almost all colonials did), and finally, going to the US to learn to be a teacher. The most interesting parts of this book for me were the picture of turn-of-the-century Trinidad an...